I00 FLORIDA DAYS.

he was a very learned man luring on board
his ships, from along this flowering coast to-
wards the north, one hundred and thirty na-
tives; and then turning about for home. They
were to be sold; and that meant gold with
greater ease than by search in these hot sands.
But to a man they were set free in mid ocean,
for they died of despair and terror. A specu-
lator can only meet such a turn of fortune by
good-tempered impatience and greater wisdom
for the next time; so, carelessly, as a player
tosses'aside a useless card, they were all flung
overboard, without a sail-cloth or a prayer,
and De Ayllon hunted for gold in less un-
certain ways.
 It was after this piece of treachery, that one
Pamphilo de Narvaez, to whom the King had
granted vast estates in this new land, came, full
of zeal for his own gain and the salvation of
souls. It was on the shores of the Bay of the
Holy Spirit, that he issued to the Indians that
extraordinary manifesto in Spanish which was
to insure temporal and spiritual benefit to be
divided as the conqueror saw fit. This paper